This American Life

This American Life (TAL) is an American weekly hour-long radio program produced by WBEZ and hosted by Ira Glass. It has been made available on PRI affiliate stations and is also available as a free weekly podcast. Primarily a journalistic non-fiction program, it has also featured essays, memoirs, field recordings, short fiction, and found footage. The first episode aired on November 17, 1995, under the show's original title, Your Radio Playhouse. The series is distributed by Public Radio International.A television program of the same name ran for two seasons on the Showtime cable network between June 2007 and May 2008.

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…, it hasn’t gone mainstream. But this might change soon. A 2014 survey from Edison Research showed approximately 39 million Americans listen to podcasts each month, and this number has been growing almost every year since 2008. It might not be an explosion on the scale of an overnight hit like Snapchat, but it’s hard to ignore the growth. More…

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… of the “This American Life” crew, which produces the ambitious podcast, but it’s also indicative of a broader trend: Podcasts are more popular now than ever. Apple, which added a default, non-deletable “Podcasts” app in iOS 8, expects iTunes and iOS users to listen to 7 billion podcasts this year. In September, podcast data research firm RawVoice (which…

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… Think about this for a moment. Your favorite podcasts. This American Life. WTF with Marc Maron. Pat Flynn’s Smart Passive Income. Every single one of them started at the bottom. Every single one of them started in obscurity. Every single one of them started without an audience. It’s hard to believe. Over 25 years ago, at age 19, Ira…

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